The Psalms - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 692

PSALMS. Boon: I. Pszmus 40, 41. PSALM 40. T0 his Bandmaster. 3 §¤n1m bg Qnirih. S·r.mzA 1. Hoping, I hoped in the Loran, Who looked ou, and heard as I cried, And raised from the Pit of Despair, Pulled my feet from the miry clay, Placed on the firm rock of success, And put a. new song in my mouth. Many saw and gave thanks to our Gon, And will reverence and trust in the LORD. Srsuzzl 2. Happy man! who can trust in the Loxm, Nor turns to false slippery lies! LORD how many the things You have made, How grand Your designs for our sakes, No man can relate them for You, They exceed every utterance by speech. You approved not of offerings and gifts, You revealed to my ears, You asked not burnt oHerings for sin, Behold I have come, As prescribed in the letter to me, With delight, GOD, to work out Your will, For Your law is endorsed in my breast. I publiclypreached about Right, You know, LORD, my lips were not still, I hid not Your good news in my heart, Your Truth, and Salvation proclaimed; I concealed not Your mercy and Faith, From the Public at large! S·rA1~rzA 3. LORD hold not Your pity from me,

Let Your mercy and truth always guard. For sufferings upon me are heaped, Without number the frailties I bear, To look at them I have no power; They are more than the hairs of my head, So-I have abandoned my heart; Let it please You, my LORD, to relieve, Everlasting make haste to my aid! Degrade and disgrace them at once, Who hunt for my life to destroy, Repulse and defeat those who joy in my woes; Give them loss, in reward for their jeers, Who uttered against me their laugh. Let those singand be glad who seek You, Say always the LORD was my Saviour and Friend. For tho’ I amtpoorand, in want, About me my LORD cares, and guards, So delay not to save me, my GOD. PSALM 41. To his Bandmaster. 3 {grain: hg @¤i¤ib. I0

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I2 16 :8 Bless the man who consoles the depressed! 2 The LORD will relieve him in grief, LORD ! keep his life happy on earth, 6%